Orpington+EEs

[phasianidae]

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Thank you.


I believe your pale legs come from the Buff Orpington. My Splash has slate legs so when crossed with the EE the chicks carry the slate leg.



I like me a large bird, and my heritage Orp really puts some size on whatever hatchery stock he is mixed with. Of course the extra fluff just makes me giddy

Yeah I didn't think of that

 

[phasianidae]

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Oh - interesting. You could cross his daughters back to him for some possible lav EEs.

ooh very interesting!! I could do that!!! OK then I guess Ill save a few eggs this week want some????

and your birds are very beautiful!!!!

can you ship eggs?

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Oh - interesting. You could cross his daughters back to him for some possible lav EEs.

ooh very interesting!! I could do that!!! OK then I guess Ill save a few eggs this week want some????

and your birds are very beautiful!!!!

Oh, you are a bad, bad girl

To tempt me so. I just have little luck with shipped eggs - the altitude, dryness and our PO seem to take their toll - but you do tempt me.


Would you like some from mine - once they start to lay again (I don't use a light in the coop)????



Also this year, I am crossing an APA sport Ameraucana (he is from black parents but is "white") with my huge black Orpingtons (bama birds) - cannot wait to see these chicks once the girls start to lay.

 

[HenPecked_bychildren]

When you cross a EE or ameraucana with a different breed could the offspring lay green eggs?

 

[phasianidae]

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yes, whether the father or mother carries the gene for blue eggs does not matter. I dont know on the percentages of offspring that will lay green eggs.-out of the two hens so far that i have bred from a half EE mating, one lays brown eggs and the other lays green. I have a third pullet that should be laying soon so i hope she lays green eggs. I have heard that if a pea combed hen from a mating where one of her parents was a carrier of the blue egg gene she will lay blue or green eggs. but i have a pea combed, bearded hen from a New Hampshire/EE mating and she lays brown eggs.

 

[Illia]

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Yes.

Crossing an Ameraucana to a brown egg laying breed will give green egg layers.

Crossing an Easter Egger to a brown egg laying breed will give brown and/or green egg layers.

Crossing an Easter Egger to a white egg laying breed will give light green (or blue) egg layers.

 

[sonew123]

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ooh very interesting!! I could do that!!! OK then I guess Ill save a few eggs this week

and your birds are very beautiful!!!!

can you ship eggs?

of course ! people do it all the time
check out all the BYC auctions

 

[phasianidae]

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can you ship eggs?

of course ! people do it all the time
check out all the BYC auctions

haha, i mean can YOU?

 

[sonew123]

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of course ! people do it all the time
check out all the BYC auctions

haha, i mean can YOU?

Oh sorry- I thought you meant in general! haha Sure I could-I only get 1-2 of those eggs a day though-I mean I have a whole flock of girls with him but only two EE in with them

 

[phasianidae]

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haha, i mean can YOU?

Oh sorry- I thought you meant in general! haha Sure I could-I only get 1-2 of those eggs a day though-I mean I have a whole flock of girls with him but only two EE in with them

what color is your EE hen?